Friday, March 16, 2018

Exam Study Guide

Test TUESDAY on CHAPTER 13

15 multiple choice
15 identifications


Multiple Choice:
What did Helen Hunt Jackson's book discuss? 
Which region of the United States was most directly affected by the passage of the Homestead Act?
Effects of:  

  • The invention of the steel plow, 
  • the passage of the Homestead Act
  • completion of the transcontinental railroad 
How did the railroads influence the cattle industry?
Subject of the painting, American Progress

Reasons for the decline of the Plains Indians 
Why did Farmers support farmers supported free and unlimited coinage of silver?
The two factors which did the most to stimulate rapid settlement of the west
What did the Homestead Act give to settlers? 
Purpose of the Dawes Act
What the Dawes Act did (how it worked)
What was a cause of economic hardship (difficulty) for farmers in the decades following the Civil War 
Which group most often supported the views of the Populist Party?

Vocab: 
Morrill Act
Sitting Bull
Pullman Strike
William Jennings Bryan
Assimilation
Wounded Knee
Exodusters
Homestead Act
Populism
Bimetallism
Soddy
Dawes Act
Great Plains
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Grange

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